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Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Oil held steady on Friday, hovering at about $99 a barrel, after falling the day before as traders took profits from a read more »

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AP - Geeta Citygirl just figured something was wrong with her phone when she realized the greetings she was sending as the ball dr read more »

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AFP - Seven houses were torched early Friday in southern East Timor where international peacekeepers and UN police are on national read more »

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Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it will offer a free downloadable video game to users of its Xbox online gaming servic read more »

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AP - Tommy Tune will return to musical theater, directing "Turn of the Century," a world premiere that will be part of an ambitiou read more »

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AP - A Silicon Valley startup is promising to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet service, reviving a crusade that c read more »

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AP - A Silicon Valley startup is promising to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet service, reviving a crusade that c read more »

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Reuters - Microsoft Corp sold 4.3 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months of 2007, helped by hit titles s read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It's been three-and-a-half years since the EFF set up its patent busting project, where it lined up 10 awful patents with the hop read more »

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AP - A Libyan took over as president of the U.N. Security Council Thursday, capping the nation's climb back to respectability. But read more »

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Reuters - CBS won Christmas week in total viewers, while "NBC Sunday Night Football" was the top program during the period. read more »

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AP - Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, deal read more »

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AP - Stephen Stills is recovering after surgery for prostate cancer, his wife said Thursday. read more »

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Reuters - The Directors Guild of America has begun casual contract talks with the studios, and an announcement of formal negotia read more »

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AP - President Hugo Chavez shuffled his Cabinet on Thursday, naming a retired military officer as vice president and other changes read more »

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Reuters - Ford Motor Co on Thursday selected Tata Motors Ltd as the front-runner to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, placing India's read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
A little over a week after Kaspersky's anti-virus software declared Windows Explorer was a virus, it appears that McAfee has had read more »

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AP - Lindsay Lohan rang in the New Year drinking champagne in Italy, her lawyer says, but is "back on track" in terms of sobriety. read more »

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InfoWorld - German memory chip giant Qimonda AG on Thursday announced a five-year pact to develop several types of non-volatile me read more »

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AP - Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbors will have to show more proof if they want to sue him for building a basketball court they claim read more »

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InfoWorld - With the aim to improve company performance and better meet customers' needs, IBM on Thursday said it was realigning i read more »

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Reuters - U.S. DVD unit sales fell 4.5 percent in 2007, marking the first big year-over-year decline for the category since the read more »

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AP - Television viewers welcomed late-night hosts with open arms for their first night back at work in two months because of a wri read more »

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Reuters - Concert touring company Live Nation on Thursday said it reached a two-year, multimillion dollar, worldwide touring dea read more »

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AP - Talk about star power: The success of Hollywood's awards season sits squarely on the shoulders of celebrities. read more »

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AP - Britney Spears finally appeared Thursday for a deposition in her child-custody battle with Kevin Federline, her ex-husband's read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It's well known that China goes to tremendous lengths to censor and block certain types of content online through a combination o read more »

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AP - Lindsay Lohan rang in the New Year drinking champagne in Italy, her lawyer says, but is "back on track" in terms of sobriety. read more »

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AP - Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb Thursday near a bus carrying soldiers in a Kurdish-dominated city in southeaste read more »

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Reuters - Major automakers reported lower U.S. sales for December led by a 9 percent slide at Ford Motor Co as the industry clos read more »

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AP - Interior Minister Belisario Velasco, one of the most powerful officials in President Michelle Bachelet's government, resigned read more »

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Reuters - U.S. home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond Inc posted a lower quarterly profit on Thursday and warned its fourth-quar read more »

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AP - BEFRIENDING LIBYA: Despite unresolved terrorism and human rights concerns, the United States took another step toward ending read more »

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InfoWorld - Looking to make Web development easier for Java developers, the Apache Software Foundation began offering this week Ap read more »

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AP - Mapuche Indians trying to reclaim farmland they say belonged to their ancestors clashed with police in Chile Thursday in viol read more »

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Playbill - The Blyth Festival, the intimate summer festival devoted exclusively to works by Canadian authors - in contrast to the read more »

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Techblogger Robert Scoble has apparently been barred from Facebook for running a script from Plaxo to export his relationship inf read more »

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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. diversified stock funds on average fell 0.37% in December. They fell 3.08% in the fourth quarter read more »

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AP - Police used tear gas, water cannons and batons Thursday to block thousands of people from protesting Kenya's disputed electio read more »

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AP - Consumer electronics aren't exactly easy on the environment — they consume electricity that contributes to global warming, a read more »

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Doc was the first of a few of you to send in the news that author Charles Sheehan-Miles is the latest of a bunch of new authors w read more »

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Reuters - U.S. stocks ended little changed on Thursday as anxiety that Friday's payrolls data may suggest the economy is headed read more »

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AP - Residents and businesses in central upstate New York sued IBM Corp. for more than $100 million Thursday saying pollution from read more »

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Reuters - The world's premier consumer electronics show kicks off in Las Vegas next week, but economic headwinds may mute the gl read more »

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AP - The Israeli army stepped up a broad offensive in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least nine Palestinians with airstrik read more »

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AP - 1. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) read more »

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AFP - A powerful car bomb exploded Thursday near a military base in Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast read more »

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AFP - The United States on Thursday announced it had sent a team to assess humanitarian needs in Ethiopia's Ogaden region, where g read more »

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AP - Almost every accountant has a story about a small business client who showed up on April 10 or thereabouts, expecting to star read more »

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AP - Russia warned Britain on Thursday that reopening two offices of a British cultural organization would inflame already tense r read more »

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AP - A top Shiite politician on Thursday acknowledged the contribution of U.S.-backed Sunni Arab groups to the decline in violence read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It's sometimes amazing how shortsighted companies can be -- especially when they discover that others are making their own servic read more »

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InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to issue two security updates for its Windows operating system products next Tuesday as part of its re read more »

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AP - For decades, the Imams bridge spanning the Tigris river linked two ancient Baghdad neighborhoods — one Sunni, the other Shii read more »

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AP - Iran's supreme leader said Thursday that he was willing to restore diplomatic relations with the United States but doing so n read more »

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AP - President Pervez Musharraf vehemently denied Thursday that Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies were behind Benazir read more »

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NewsFactor - Watch out Google, ChaCha is doing a mobile search dance uniquely its own. ChaCha on Thursday announced a new service read more »

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AP - Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds heading for a banned rally to protest Kenya's dispu read more »

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AP - While most electronics companies are still trying to establish green credentials, 2008 could mark a turning point for previou read more »

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AP - Notebook computers can be as powerful as desktops these days, especially as hard-disk makers like Hitachi Ltd. grab industry read more »

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NewsFactor - According to a University of Utah study, motorists who talk on cell phones drive more slowly on the freeway, pass slu read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
theodp writes "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. But making a list for him may now constitute patent infringement. USPTO read more »

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FT.com - Wall Street stocks crept higher on Thursday after news of a modest increase in private sector employment and a larger-tha read more »

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AP - DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. will begin delivering movies and other programming directly to televisions later this year t read more »

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AP - IBM Corp. is restructuring its hardware division around customer types rather than individual products, marking the biggest s read more »

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Reuters - The European Commission will make proposals by mid-2008 aimed at creating a single European market in the burgeoning s read more »

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Reuters - Ford Motor Co on Thursday posted a 9 percent decline in U.S. sales for December. read more »

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FT.com - An article published by the Financial Times on 11 November 2003 headed "US delays mobile phone contracts to investigate" read more »

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PC World - Bain Capital, a U.S. equity investment firm, declined to comment Wednesday on news reports that a U.S. government panel read more »

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Reuters - Oil prices broke over $100 a barrel for the first time on Thursday after a U.S. government report showed a steep slide read more »

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PC World - A company suing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement has asked for US$20 million to sett read more »

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AP - Orders to U.S. factories jumped in November by the largest amount in four months, but a key gauge of business investment fell read more »

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AP - For one night at least, viewers were more interested in seeing how the late-night shows without writers coped than the progra read more »

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AP - Late payments on a cluster of consumer loans, including those for autos, home improvement and certain home equity loans, clim read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Researchers are working on a cocaine vaccine that uses the immune system to attack cocaine molecules, rendering them ineffective. read more »

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Reuters - State Street Corp said on Thursday that it expected to report strong quarterly operating earnings, which overshadowed read more »

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PC World - Storage vendor Network Appliance said Thursday it plans to buy Onaro, a Boston company that develops storage management read more »

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Reuters - Landmark Communications Inc., which owns The Weather Channel, said on Thursday it hired two investment banks and would read more »

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AP - Edo de Waart, chief conductor and artistic director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, was named Thursday as the next music direc read more »

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Reuters - The Dow industrials and S&P 500 edged higher on Thursday as a larger-than-expected rise in factory orders eased worrie read more »

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AP - The Three Tenors will never re-form with a new singer replacing the late Luciano Pavarotti, tenor Jose Carreras says. read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Brynne Zaccaro, Channel Marketing Specialist, Local MarketsAccording to a WebVisible-Nielsen survey from October 2007, 7 read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Following some massive data leaks in the UK, some politicians there are considering a plan to make it a criminal offense to "reck read more »

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FT.com - London equities were higher in afternoon trade on Thursday, with momentum coming from the the heavily-weighted oil sector read more »

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Reuters - In 1981 when Hal Holbrook was working on the TV movie "The Killing of Randy Webster," a quiet, young actor on the set read more »

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AP - China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to read more »

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AP - Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds heading for a banned rally to protest Kenya's dispu read more »

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Reuters - U.S. carmaker Ford Motor Co said on Thursday Tata Motors Ltd was the front-runner to buy its European brands Jaguar and read more »

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AP - A group of lions devoured a man at the game lodge where he worked, police said Thursday. read more »

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AP - A top Shiite politician on Thursday acknowledged the contribution of U.S.-backed Sunni Arab groups to the decline in violence read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Various authorized movie download sites have been flopping lately due to various reasons -- but one of the big ones is the contin read more »

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AP - Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including the home of a senior Palestinian militant killed read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - European equity markets moved lower on Thursday as investors remained cautious in the face of record oil prices and slowi read more »

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AP - They don't often compete for parts, but William Shatner beat out Bill Cosby for his longest-running role. read more »

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AP - Pakistan's U.S.-allied president must resign before next month's elections or the country could risk slipping into civil war, read more »

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AP - Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds of protesters heeding an opposition call for a "mil read more »

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AFP - Pakistani troops captured 52 suspected Islamist militants Thursday in the restive northwestern valley of Swat, the military read more »

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AP - To get a sense of what kind of legacy Benazir Bhutto, the Muslim world's first female leader, left behind for the women of Pa read more »

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AFP - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez insists his team are still in the race for the Premier League title despite sitting 12 poin read more »

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Reuters - A South African man was killed and eaten by lions at a game farm in the country's North West province, police said on read more »

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AP - American actor and director Sean Penn will head the awards jury at the Cannes Film Festival this year, organizers announced T read more »

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Reuters - Nobody would ever confuse R.E.M. for Metallica, but the guitars have definitely been turned up for the Georgia group's read more »

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Reuters - Despite regular calls from theater owners for a "12-month releasing year," the studios avoid opening movies at certain read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - The U.S. manufacturing economy unexpectedly contracted in December, ending a streak of 10 consecutive months of growth and si read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Someone who apparently prefers to remain anonymous submitted to us the news that Israeli security companies are warning people to read more »

Date : 03 Jan 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Ginny Hunt, Google Election ProgramTonight when Iowans gather in living rooms and high school gyms to take the first ste read more »

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AP - Flat-panel TVs look lovely on a wall — the cords hanging from them, less so. After a few years of false starts, the industry read more »

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AP - Myanmar's army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive whose past human read more »

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AP - The Sri Lankan government said Thursday that the Tamil Tiger rebels must disarm before any future peace talks, a day after th read more »

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Reuters - Oil prices dipped on Thursday, after jumping to a lifetime high of $100 the day before, fuelled by expectations of thi read more »

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AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Life without writers could be a slog for Jay Leno — and a no-frills affair for his viewers. But his fans ma read more »

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AP - NEW YORK (AP) — A Republican, a Democrat and two bearded hosts walked into a TV studio last night ... and so did Robin Willi read more »

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Reuters - U.S. cable channel The Weather Channel is to be put up for sale and could fetch more than $5 billion, The New York Tim read more »

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Reuters - Swiss biotech company Addex Pharmaceuticals SA could receive more than $700 million from Merck & Co Inc for a licens read more »

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AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Late-night TV hosts returned to the air Wednesday after a two-month hiatus, displaying support for striking read more »

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AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Online movie download site CinemaNow Inc. has struck a deal with software maker Macrovision Corp. aimed a read more »

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AFP - China's mutual fund industry nearly quadrupled in 2007 as millions of investors rushed to convert their bank deposits for hi read more »

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AFP - Australian anti-whaling protesters staged a demonstration outside the Japanese consulate in Melbourne Thursday, unfurling a read more »

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AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Golden Globe Awards were thrust into deeper jeopardy Wednesday when the striking writers guild refuse read more »